Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site on September 23, 2026.
Pemiscot County, Missouri, has about 14,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Pemiscot County Sheriff's Office and four city agencies. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Pemiscot County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Pemiscot County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Pemiscot County
The Pemiscot County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Pemiscot County. It reported 50 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists four cities in Pemiscot County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Caruthersville, 5,170 residents: 431 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hayti, 2,273 residents: 221 arrests reported for 2020.
- Steele, 1,692 residents: 40 arrests reported for 2025.
- Cooter, 319 residents.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Pemiscot County
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Caruthersville: 431 for 2025, 526 for 2024, 287 for 2022, 179 for 2021 and 252 for 2019; 2020 and 2023 are missing months.
- Pemiscot County Sheriff's Office: 50 for 2025, 54 for 2024, 66 for 2023, 51 for 2022, 23 for 2021 and 4 for 2020.
- Steele: 40 for 2025, 73 for 2024, 103 for 2023, 113 for 2022, 119 for 2021 and 150 for 2020.
- Hayti: 221 for 2020 and 253 for 2019.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 521 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 521 in 2025 against 653 in 2024, down 20 percent.
Hayti reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Pemiscot County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Pemiscot County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2019 the jail held about 69 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 124 beds, and it ran at 56 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Pemiscot County Sheriff's Office at pemiscotcounty.org/sheriff.php (page title: Pemiscot County Government | Caruthersville, MO), phone (573) 333-4101, 800 Ward Avenue Caruthersville, MO 63830, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Missouri Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at web.mo.gov/doc/offSearchWeb.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Pemiscot County
Whether someone was arrested in Pemiscot County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Pemiscot County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at pemiscotcounty.org/circuit-clerk.php, phone 573-333-0182); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at pemiscotcounty.org/prosecuter.php, phone 573-333-2738).
Statewide, Case.net is the Missouri courts' free statewide case search.
Missouri is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the open record search on the MACHS site lets anyone check convictions by name, through the Missouri State Highway Patrol Criminal Justice Information Services Division. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Pemiscot County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the agency must answer within 3 business days, and it may charge research time and copying.
- An arrest by the Pemiscot County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (573) 333-4101.
- An arrest in Caruthersville, Hayti, Steele or Cooter: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 573-333-2738, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Pemiscot County Circuit Court, through the court records page at pemiscotcounty.org/circuit-clerk.php, phone 573-333-0182.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Pemiscot County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the ten cities in Pemiscot County: Caruthersville, Hayti, Steele and Cooter. Hayti Heights, Wardell, Holland, Pascola, Homestown and Bragg City have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Pemiscot County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Pemiscot County each year?
Caruthersville reported 431 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 521 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Pemiscot County?
Ask the Pemiscot County Sheriff's Office at (573) 333-4101; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at pemiscotcounty.org/sheriff.php.
Where are people arrested in Pemiscot County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pemiscot County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Pemiscot County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Missouri State Highway Patrol Criminal Justice Information Services Division: the open record search on the MACHS site lets anyone check convictions by name. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Missouri Sunshine Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Pemiscot County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Pemiscot County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the answer is due within 3 business days.
Is this the official Pemiscot County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.